IChurch · listed 1962Church of St MaryPhoto: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0
Baptist Church · Photo: Hugh Venables · CC BY-SA 2.0BHistory Grade
History of Over · Historic England
36 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Over’s built-up area, 124 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 35 of Over’s listed buildings. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 12% of its homes were built before 1919. Over grades B for history: #19 of 50 in Cambridgeshire.
Listed buildings
36
124 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
12%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Over in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St MaryGrade I listed
Poplar Farm InnGrade II listed
GlywoodGrade II listed
Over War MemorialGrade II listed
Church FarmhouseGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Over’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
36 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*35 Grade II
Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Over
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Over’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas30
Churches, chapels & priories4
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
30 entries (83%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
35 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 35 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Baptist ChurchBarn, Rear of Number 28 Hilton StreetBerry HouseChurch FarmhouseDovecote, Rear of Number 12 (Ivy House)Equestrian Statue of Viscount Hardinge in the Grounds of Albion Villa (Number 6 Church End)Furtherwick HouseGlywoodIvy HouseNumber 1 West Street and Number 41 Glover StreetNumbers 13 (Poplar Cottage) and 15Over War MemorialPoplar Farm InnSwan HouseSycamore HouseThe Thatched HouseThe Vicarage1, King Street13, Church End13, High Street17, High Street2, West Street20 and 22, West Street20, Station Road22, High Street28, Hilton Street30, Glover Street30, Station Road30, West Street32, West Street34, West Street36, West Street37 and 39, Fen End4, High Street48, Fen End
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 8.9% of Over
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Over 197210 ha
10 hain conservation areas, of 111 ha inside the built-up area.
12 of the 36 listed buildings stand in one.
Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
How the list grew
More than half of Over’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 201962 · 6
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The first 6 entries were listed in 1962, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 20 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Over grades B for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (38 points, 131 per 10,000 residents)More than 73% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (12%)More than 31% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Towns its size
Over has the 93rd most Grade I buildings of 1,241 towns its size
Places of 2,000–5,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Over1
#280 of 1,241for listed buildings per resident (124 per 10,000). Painswick, Sandwich and Chipping Campden lead.
92 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Over
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Over | 2,898 | 36 | 1 | B |
| Swavesey | 2,739 | 20 | 0 | B− |
| Willingham | 3,912 | 32 | 1 | B |
| Needingworth | 2,059 | 17 | 0 | C+ |
| Longstanton and Northstowe | 5,278 | 12 | 1 | C− |
| Bluntisham and Colne | 2,790 | 40 | 1 | B+ |
| Earith | 1,656 | 27 | 0 | B+ |
| Fenstanton | 3,015 | 45 | 1 | B+ |
In brief
Over in brief
The official list counts 36 listed buildings in Over, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Mary. Only 92 of the 1,241 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972.
Of the whole list, 83% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 20 of 36. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Over’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Over?
Historic England lists 36 buildings inside Over’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 35 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Over?
One: Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Over?
1, covering about 10 hectares of the town. The largest is Over.
When were Over’s buildings listed?
The first in 1962; the most, 20, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Over?
12% of homes were built before 1919 and 16% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.
Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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